The Press: Society Reporter

The richest gossip of his time died
last week. On his deathbed, fat, vain little Maury Henry Biddle Paul,
"Cholly Knickerbocker" of the New York Journal-American, could well
reflect that he had made himself more famous than most of the puppets
he wrote about in his quarter century as a society reporter.

A Social Registerite himself, he knew more about Manhattan and Newport
society than any other man, including his famed predecessor, Ward
McAllister, who invented "The 400." Paul coined the phrase "Café
Society" and made a fat living insulting it. But he differed from other
society reporters in being able...